Naomi Kawase
Naomi Kawase (河瀨直美 Kawase Naomi, born May 30, 1969) is a Japanese film director. She graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1989. Many of her works have been documentaries, including Embracing, about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and Katatsumori, about the grandmother who raised her. Aside from being a filmmaker, she is the founder and Executive Director for the Nara International Film Festival.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 12.928 |
| Birthday | 1969-05-30 |
| Place of Birth | Nara, Japan |
| Also Known As | 河瀨直美, 仙頭直美, Sentō Naomi, 가와세 나오미, 센토 나오미, Наоми Кавасэ, 河瀬直美, かわせなおみ, |
2003
Shara
6.318/33
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, t...
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Shara
2001
Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
6/4
Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.
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Sky, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth
1992
Embracing
6.2/8
A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her grandma and her search for her father, whom she has not seen since her parents divorced during her e...
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Embracing
2002
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
5.7/3
Kazuo Nishii, renowned editor and photography critic, died in 2001 of stomach cancer. Two months earlier he contacted Naomi Kawase, whose works he adm...
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Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
2012
Trace
6.5/4
Kawase pays tribute to the grandmother that raised her after being separated from her parents as a child. The film teems with memories, but it is the...
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Trace
2013
The Tale of Iya
6.896/24
As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna's humbl...
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The Tale of Iya
1995
Memory of the Wind
0/0
Naomi Kawase observes people in the city of Shibuya with curiosity and openness, drawing parallels between life and filmmaking and discovering her abi...
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Memory of the Wind
2006
Birth/Mother
6.3/6
Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and d...
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Birth/Mother
2020
It Stopped Raining
7.9/6
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized,...
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It Stopped Raining
1996
Sun on the Horizon
7/1
The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and herself. Her gazes and insights are cast on the lovab...
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Sun on the Horizon
1994
Katatsumori
7.2/11
Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.
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Katatsumori
2014
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
6/3
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind th...
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Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
1998
Love & Pop
7.602/64
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates....
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Love & Pop
1995
See Heaven
5/4
The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katasumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma", capturing their love and attachment towards each...
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See Heaven
2021
Missing Pictures
0/0
For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the big screen. In the VR experience Missing Pictures,...
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Missing Pictures
2011
Destroy Vicious
0/0
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Destroy Vicious
2013
Shining Besides Funny Moon
0/0
A sexy mystery movie where a dominatrix and a detective get to the bottom of a string of suicides.
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